Levan Koguashvili

Director at DIFF 2026

Levan Koguashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at the Georgian State Film Institute before the civil war interrupted his training, during which he worked as a television journalist. He later graduated from VGIK in Moscow under Soviet auteur Marlen Khutsiyev and earned a Master’s from New York University’s Graduate Film Program. Working across documentary and fiction, his debut feature Street Days premiered at Rotterdam. Blind Dates premiered at Toronto and screened at the Berlinale, winning more than twenty international awards. His documentary Gogita’s New Life premiered at IDFA. His tragicomedy Brighton 4th won three Tribeca awards, including Best Film, and was Georgia’s official Academy Awards entry.